WorldNetDaily’s Bob Unruh tried to falsely frame Rep. Alex Padilla’s detention at a press conference held by DHS secretary Kristi Noem was a stunt, and he did so again in a July 11 article:
A Democrat senator whose stunt, crashing a news conference by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem without ID, leaving security fearful it was an attack on a federal official, now is demanding that federal agents wear their IDs on their uniforms.
It is Alex Padilla, of California, who has proposed legislation to require Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to wear identification badges.
His stunt at the news conference created quite a stir as he was forcibly removed by security because he charged the stage where Noem was, and had not identified himself.
Note that Unruh contradicted himself by claiming he attended the presser “without ID,” then admitted that he did, in fact, identify himself. He also reprinted a tweet from the right-wing Daily Caller falsely claiming that Padilla was “heckling” Noem. And as before, Unruh offered no evidence that what Padilla did was a “stunt.” Instead, he played the partisan, as he is prone to do:
Increasingly strident encounters have been developing across the country as ICE officers have been carrying out President Donald Trump’s campaign to secure the nation’s border and remove mostly to their home countries illegal aliens, including criminals, allowed into the country under Joe Biden’s tenure.
Further, Padilla was criticized for his stunt.
Again, Unruh offered no evidence it was a “stunt.” Once again, he’s putting being a right-wing opinionator ahead of being the reporter he’s supposed to be.